Another Slice

If memory serves, I think it’s Malcolm McDowell.

When I was in school, an acquaintance of mine spent a weekend at Yale at some “cinema” workshop/festival/seminar thing.  And he wound up sharing a room with none other than HUGE MOVIE STAR Malcolm McDowell.  Who’d become world-famous in Lindsay Anderson’s If.  Then Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.

My friend said McDowell was a totally British gentleman, charming, soft-spoken, thoughtful, considerate (which must have been a shock, given the roles he’d played), right down to the (unexpected) three-piece Bond Street suits and the Oxbridge accent.

True story.

Later on, I got a kick out of watching McDowell in Time After Time.  Where he played H.G.Wells, and had to time-travel to 70′s San Francisco to chase Jack the Ripper (who’d stolen his other time machine and arrived there first), played by a nefarious David Warner.  The “love interest” in the film was Mary Steenbergen, who went on to marry McDowell– in real life.  (Though that didn’t last, and she later wound up with Ted Danson, if memory serves.)

Next question:  Were Malcolm McDowell and Winona Ryder ever in a movie together?

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